Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — Something About Ice. [ARTICLE]

Something About Ice.

Besides the fact that ice is lighter than water, there is another curious thing about it which persons do not know, perhaps—namely, its purity. A lump or ice melted willalwaysbecome purely distilled water. When the early navigators of the Arctic seas got out of water they melted fragments of those vast mountains of ice called icebergs,and were astonished to find that they yielded only fresh water. They thought that they were frozen salt water, not knowing that they were formed on the land and in some way launched into the sea. But if they had been right the result would have been just the same. The fact is, the water In freezing turns out of it all that Is not watter—salt, air, coloring matter, and all impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh water lee. If you freeze a basin of indigo water, it will make It as pure as that made of pure rain water. When the cold is very midden these foreign matters have no time to eecape, either by rising or sinking,and are thus entangled with the ice, but ao not form any part of it.